Applying tools to managed nodes, services, and messages
Tools are applications, scripts, and commands that help you perform
necessary tasks in your environment, such as launching corrective
actions or diagnostic tools. HPOM provides many such out-of-the-box
tools to make managing your environment easier. The tools available
to you are determined by your administrator and are contained in
tool groups in the
Tools folder in the HP Operations Manager
console tree. To view tools, select a tools folder to display the
tools it contains in the details pane.
NOTE:
Predefined tools in HPOM have no versioning. If you modify one of
the predefined tools, and later perform an upgrade to your current
product version, this upgrade will overwrite any modifications you
made to the tool. Only tools that you created will be saved and
will reappear after the upgrade.
You can apply tools to selected managed services, nodes, or
messages. In some cases, you can view the results of the tool
application to see if it failed or succeeded using the Tool
Status dialog box. If the tool was configured to run on your
console, status is not displayed. For tools running in locations
other than the console, you can see the output of a tool
application if Command Generates Output was specified when
your administrator configured the tool.
For example, you might specify that a report be generated for a
selected service, then launched to run on the node where the
service is running. You would then view the results of the launch
and take further action, such as stopping or rerunning the tool, if
necessary.
You can apply tools using either of these methods:
NOTE:
To use HP Operations Manager tools for UNIX nodes, you must first
deploy instrumentation to those nodes.
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